BC-FBN-KURTENBACH-COLUMN:SJ — sports (1200 words)
ALAMEDA, Calif. — Jon Gruden is still skirting accountability.
He refuses to admit that he’s on an aggressive rebuilding campaign — tanking the team’s final years (or year) in Oakland for the sake of the team’s Las Vegas future.
He refuses to admit that he calls all the shots in Alameda, and that general manager Reggie McKenzie is nothing more than a well-paid yes man.
He refuses to admit that, by trading two Pro Bowl players (ages 24 and 27) without remorse or much of an immediate explanation to his team, he has created natural discord among a locker room chock full of veteran players brought in to “win now.